Universal Periodic Review

3 results arranged by date

5. Building Pressure, Enforcing Compliance

The United Nations has escalated its focus on journalist killings, declaring that unpunished attacks against journalists are a major threat not only to press freedom, but also to all major areas of the U.N.’s work. In recent years, it has adopted two resolutions addressing journalists’ safety and impunity and launched a plan of action. These have come on top of existing Security Council Resolution 1738, which condemns attacks against journalists in conflict. “There must be no impunity for those who target journalists for violence,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon proclaimed in a statement in the run-up to World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2014.

Tags:

Stressing concerns of human rights groups about the deterioration
of press conditions under the administration of President Rafael Correa, 17 members
of the United Nations submitted recommendations to Ecuador on freedom of expression
issues before the U.N. Human
Rights Council this week. While Ecuador tried to pass off the criticism as
resulting from ignorance, the states' observations made clear that the
international community is fully aware of Correa's repressive tactics against
the local media.